Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promises the bulk of the German people whatever they want. Also its "Storm Battalions" offer shelter, food and a pittance to perhaps 200,000 German unemployed. The money comes from rich Germans who expect favors from Chancellor Hitler and from every German who has dropped a copper into the box thrust at him by a young Storm Trooper...
Secluding himself, Muncie's Conway said of his enemies: "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." With soap-box evangelists haranguing outside the Muncie courthouse, a grand jury debated fiercely, at length indicted Mr. Conway for attempted rape...
...writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard-man (1914), married (to Alice Walhams Hall), with two children, he lives quietly in Manhattan, shuns publicity, misses few tricks...
...than breed or eat. They are trained as carefully as pugilists. First they chase barnyard hens to acquire morale. Wearing steel gaffs-corked except at the tip-they become accustomed to weapons by fighting inferior opponents. They strengthen their leg muscles on treadmills, sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank...
...TELL YOU EVERYTHING-J. B. Priestley & Gerald Bullett-Macmillan ($2). That box-for its contents men die, kingdoms totter, the sanctity of a good woman is at stake. An earnest young professor pursues it. learns to swashbuckle, to lady-chase...